Word: nouveau
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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However, one wonders if the occasional aptness of such terms justifies their frequent use. The J.A.P. stereotype, for example, might apply to any nouveau riche spoiled child, regardless of gender or ethnicity. Yet it is Jewish women who are saddled with the stereotype--and some aren't too happy about...
Winslet's mother is a greedy social climber who revels in the obnoxious snobbery of Winslet's finance and his friends. The old-wealth aristocrats look down upon Kathy Bates, the crass, straight-shooting caricature of the nouveau riche. Of course, Cameron also makes bland references to the injustice of class oppression. Several back-to-back shots reveal that the ship's wealthy patrons are only able to enjoy its luxuries because of the sweat of the poor workers laboring below deck...
...grind of the years after, both the street and the theater saw hard times. By the 1980s, the New Amsterdam was a wreck. Now, after a wizardly revitalization by Hugh Hardy, one sponsored by the Walt Disney Co., it's back in all its rose-bowered, peacocked, multichromed, Art Nouveau glory...
Ciccarone didn't make the team and may have made a terrible prediction. Last week the nouveau riche Marlins took the National League championship from the vaunted Atlanta Braves to become, at only five years of age, the freshest team ever to make the World Series. Of course, they are also the first wild-card team ever to qualify for the Fall Classic, which makes them the pariahs of purists. And they benefited from home-plate umpire Eric Gregg's unusual strike zone in Game 5, when he gave new meaning to the baseball terms expansion and realignment. And they...
John Harvard's has a challenger. Brew Moon, the Church St. restaurant and microbrewery, has a contemporary, atrium-like feel and serves nouveau Californian cuisine. Come during lunch and you can watch the brewery while you're waiting for your meal...